oil of olives

English

Alternative forms

• oil of olive

Etymology

From Middle English oile of olyvys.

Noun

oil of olives (uncountable)

1. (now rare) Olive oil. [from 14th c.]
   • 1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician:

     Common Oil of Olives, is pressed out of ripe olives, not out of the stones.

   • 1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, section VIII:

     Oil of olives.—The province of Suse produces great abundance of this oil.